Women are not just present in true crime fandom, they are the engine driving it, from podcast charts to Netflix queues to TikTok rabbit holes. What looks like a taste for grisly stories is, on closer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Frank Racioppi is the owner of Ear Worthy, focusing on podcasts. “Podcasts have just enabled true crime to become more mobile and ...

True crime is a lucrative genre, topping ratings and spawning online communities. Despite its popularity—and its ability to highlight cases that need attention—the production of true crime has a dark ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Frank Racioppi is the owner of Ear Worthy, focusing on podcasts. There are well over 20,000 to 200,000+ true-crime podcasts in ...

My current national speaking tour, “Serial Killers with Dr. Scott Bonn,” affords me the opportunity to interact directly with passionate fans of the true crime genre. Having now performed my show in ...

Since the 16th century, investigators and sleuths discussing crime have taken to pamphlets, news articles, and among the most popular forms today, TikTok, YouTube, documentaries and podcasts. Today’s ...

Is exposure to true crime a threat to our mental health or a potential coping skill? A 2025 study by Perchtold-Stefan, Rominger, and Fink attempted to answer the question of whether the experience of ...

As the genre has boomed on cable, the incarcerated have found themselves watching more and more of it. By John J. Lennon John J. Lennon filed this story from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in ...